3 weeks late...in the dead period..smh.That was enough time for him to finish his obligations, contact and hire staff and study our recruits...what more could he have accomplished by up and running helter skelter immediately to Piscataway destroying his rep by not doing things right.....reminds me of the old marine saying..''hurry up and wait''..your right Nuts...that was an uninformed post.
How do you think this year's recruiting class will compare to Flood's Feb 2015 class?
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Ash was putting in 20-hour days - working for RU abut 75% of those hours - during OSU's bowl practices, but I guess Moose doesn't believe that or missed all the articles stating as much?
I think we have too many fans that want to be right in their opinion and it gets in the way of supporting the team.
Let's see how the class finished before we start judging.
Gotta take issue with at least 2 points -
(1.) "Mock the Tie all you want, he couldn't have been any worse" - OK you think Al Golden would get it done - fine - and somewhere . some time he might - but here and now - NO! - like it or not he is currently 'toxic' - (did he get any serious consideration? anywhere? NO) - he needs to renovate himself - yes, the people who are casting him as the 'village idiot of college football' are wrong - but he needs to do things & give it time to let the air out of that balloon. Rutgers needed someone with current connections to winning - and the truth is that Ash has those connections & endorsements from Meyer, Herman, and many more.
(2.) "All he has done that I've seen is show up three week late for work "
Really? in all of this time you saw & heard about - NOTHING - and therefore assume that nothing was going on? and so you draw an equivalence to a coach hired 20 years ago who flat-out took time off before getting to campus .... Maybe you should review the following, consider the extensive advance work that had to go into making all of this happen & get through the extensive searching, interviewing of multiple prospects for each position, evaluating, negotiating and closing the deal to accomplish the following for the Rutgers program:
December 7 - Official hiring of Head Coach Chris Ash - Ohio State
December 9 - Special Teams Coordinator Vince Okruch - Ohio State
December 13 - Offensive Coordinator Drew Mehringer - Houston
December 18 - Head Strength & Conditioning Coach Kenny Parker – Ohio State
December 19 - Assistant Strength Coach Gary Beemer - Hawaii
December 22 - Offensive Line Coach A.J. Blazek - Western Illinois
December 24 - Wide Receivers Coach Zak Kuhr - James Madison
December 28 - Assistant Defensive Backs Coach Aaron Henry - Arkansas
December 29 - Defensive Backs Coach Bill Busch – Ohio State
December 30 - Defensive Coordinator Jay Niemann - Northern Illinois
December 31 - Defensive Line Coach Shane Burnham – Iowa State
December 31 - Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach –Luke Rose – U of Akron
January 3 - Dir of HS Relations – Rick Mantz - Passaic High & former president of the New Jersey Football Coaches Association
January 4- Director of Recruiting - Adam Caltury – Ohio State
January 6- Director of Player Development - Nick Quartaro - North Texas
January 15 -Running Backs Coach – Jafir Williams – Purdue University
January 15 -Asst Strength & Conditioning - Justin Springer – Kansas University
You seriously look at this and can honestly say - "All he has done that I've seen is show up three week late for work " ???
If you have ever had to fill an open position, you know that many, many hours of work must be invested - far beyond the specific interview.
- and also consider that the extensive organized recruiting effort does not spontaneously spring to life - lots of planning & groundwork had to be done .
Frankly, it is highly, highly questionable that, at this point in time & with the current set of perceptions, that Al Golden could persuade a staff of this caliber to be willing to take this step with with him with their careers.
I think we'd all be happy with a top 35'ish class. Obviously a far cry from classes in the 50's and, possibly, from one ranked 45th (based on needs, et al). I'm not ready to declare him as such, either, but every last thing I've read, and he's said, lead me to believe that this guy can get done things Flood couldn't. That being said, yup, we'll see and let's hope for the best!
moose you are a clumsy saboteur in the lies you throw out with no facts just opinions, You know it and I know it what bull shit!
Oden is 300 times better then any recruit Shea/schiano got in his first class. BYW he is not done if you retort before signing day I will wait till Feb3 and throw more shit in your face.
As for personality Shea was a wet dish rag compared to this super deluxe all silk 1200 threads/inch sheets guy we have in ASH.
God Shea was smart but personality he could not recruit a dying dog in the desert to come to a water park in paradise. And what Ash has done already and we got a week to go he has already out preformed even Schiano's first year
Schiano best was Rikki? yea 19 carries 2.4 yards/carry wow he was a great RU get
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The issue shouldn't be where the players come from but rather how good are they as compared to the competition Rutgers will face in the B1G.
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